I said they need someone to operate the transporter in those days. You could have provided a counter-example if I was wrong there but you did not.
You have been provided a counter-example: DSC 1x03, Lorca activates the transporter via computer.
Your response is that DSC 1x03 is not canon, because in most other episodes people operated the transporter console manually.
I'll concede to that, on the condition that you concede to the following:
1. The Menagerie is not canon, because Spock activates the tractor beam via computer with no helm officer. In most other episodes people operated the tractor beam manually.
2. Day of the Dove is not canon, because Spock controls the transporter from the bridge with no transporter officer.
Sorry, the rules don't apply differently just because one episode aired in the 60s and one aired this month.
The assumption is that the federation possess the technology because they transmitted this image. The Klingons could have taken the 2D broadcast and made it into a holographic projection. Or if it is a 3d hologram they could have just created the illusion of 3d themselves. Not seeing any proof here.
Now this is funny.
First of all, you're confusing two different points. TUC was only brought up to highlight the silliness of your argument that the same technology can't exist in 2 different periods. Speaking of, did you ever figure out how paper could have existed in that office? Let me refresh your memory:
Discovery fits in with post 24th century. Like when Nero showed Captain Richard Robau that hologram of Spock out in the air. That's the same technology being used common place everywhere in the series. How do you explain that?
So the first problem, as mentioned, is that you're assuming that technology must only exist at one given moment. But if we grant you that, this logic becomes even more incoherent because you're now excusing TUC by saying that the Klingons and the Federation had the tech at different times. But for some reason, the same doesn't apply to your first point. You're happy to let non-Federation Romulans represent 2380s technology, but not to let non-Federation Klingons represent 2290s technology.
And you're still willing to accept that Klingons had this technology for 90 years without seeing it again on-screen, but not accept anything in DSC that was unseen in TOS. Phew!
Of course, this is all easily reconcilable by the concept that everyone - Federation, Klingon, and Romulans - actually did have this basic technology all along, just like DSC suggests, but that would just be
too simple for an evolved being such as you, who has transcended such things as common sense, to accept.
I don't understand why you people keep responding to Marsh.
...Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself, before she found herself falling down a very deep well.
